Today is “Earth Day,” an annual event promoted as a mechanism to advance awareness of environmental issues. It was begun in 1970 by then Senator Gaylord Nelson (D – WI) as a way to capture the energy of 1960s anti-war protestors into his environmental political agenda.

 

April 22^nd is Earth Day in the US, but Earth Day is now an international “green” movement that’s marked in several countries and many observe the event on the Vernal Equinox (March 20^th or 21^st), which is the timing adopted by the United Nations.

 

In 2009, Earth Day, once devoted to issues like acid rain, smog, and water pollution has essentially morphed into Global Warming Day. Today, we’ll be lectured on how to reduce our “carbon footprint,” and become “greener” by using less electricity, buying less stuff, using public transit, and the like. If we fail to take these steps, we’re told, the Earth will heat up to intolerable levels and threaten all life as we know it.

 

So dire are the consequences of our inaction on global warming, this year the Earth Day organizers are rolling out a new two-year campaign called the “Green Generation.” They say it’s similar to the “Greatest Generation,” that defeated Nazi Germany and rebuilt the world. The campaign encourages people to sign on to their “Green Generation Manifesto,” which is a commitment by “representatives of the human race” to “vote early and often,” on behalf of the Green Generation, every chance, seek out peaceful ways to halt the use of coal, eat organic food and “green” the “immediate environment.”

 

This Earth Day, please take the time to visit Minnesota Majority’s sister site, GlobalClimateScam.com for the other side of the story about the modern “green movement” and man-made global warming.